Today's New Moon is also called a Black Moon, as it is the third in a string of four New Moons in a single astronomical ...

Ruddy planet Mars is just under 3° south of the twin suns that make up the double star Porrima in Virgo this evening.

Although faint, Comet Wierzchoś can be picked up by larger scopes as it passes near the planetary nebula NGC 6058 this ...

A study published in The Astrophysical Journal reveals that the third planet from the star TRAPPIST-1 does not have an ...

A century from now, a pair of spacecraft might boldly go where no human-made object has gone before: a black hole. Here's how ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, an asteroid caught by Earth's gravity might have fragmented, creating a temporary ring ...

Our Milky Way is one of more than 100 galaxies bound together by gravity.

The waning Moon passes Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury before dawn, while Titan’s shadow transits Saturn in the sky this week.

One of the last few Titan shadow transits of the year takes place overnight tonight, with several of Saturn’s other moons ...

Using AI, astronomers discover a new type of supernova, SN 2023zkd, the strongest evidence yet of a dying star being ...

The tiny planet Mercury stands 19° west of the Sun in the early-morning sky, located in Cancer near the Beehive Cluster.

Targeted SETI approach listens for alien radio 'spillover' during planetary alignments, using Earth's deep space ...